What weird/interesting stuff do you have saved in your private messages on these forums? I had forgotten we even had them until I looked through them today. Most of the messages were from the Christmas card sends, but there were some items of note that I had completely forgotten about:

• I sold Brian some paintball guns and then he sold them to someone else
• Emon sent me a "totally legal" link to download an old game
• Freelancer was super pissed that I kept making fun of his hot mom
• JediGandalf banned me for making fun of Freelancer's hot mom
• Crimson gave me a cool motorcycle jacket that totally saved my ass
• Several people expressing their pleasure at my misfortune
• Floppy collaboration
• Random insults from Shintock
• Numerous warnings and infractions from mb and CoolMatty

What weird/interesting **** do you have in your PMs? It's like a time machine.

Got this. Afraid to open it.

SAJN_Master's brother cold-messaged me "I know you're busy with The Matrix Unplugged but..." and a list of models he wanted me to make for him.

afaict I did not reply

Lots of technical questions.
A few attempts to take political discussions off-line, mostly by Wookie06.
Some forum admin/ban complaints (I've never been an admin).
Bunch of unsolicited ****-talking.

Nothing all that interesting.

dick pics

nudes mostly

There were also some PMs from spook trying to get me to meet up with him in 29 Palms.

trying to sleep with me, no doubt

What else are you good for, Steven.

A few PMs about programming and other things, a few personal questions about schools, some game key swaps, and from a long time ago when an IRL friend tried joining the forum and got like banned or something and there's drama, heh.

Guy turned out to be an ******* anyway, we don't speak.

i will admit i am not good at very many things but that is one of them

He apologized for that the next day IIRC. If I remember, what I said was to chill out on the flamewar bull**** and he sent this, lol.

I forgot how salty the internet could be. I feel like people got angrier back then, or maybe the only internet I expose myself to is better, not sure.

wait lmao really? I wanted a ride to palm springs no doubt.

And we would NOT have been doing any sleeping.

wanna drive to 29 palms?

You wouldn't rather do gay **** in one of the most conservative small towns in America?

It's a thrill

Yes, let's go

Okay wel im already here

kk, i'll get on the train to dc and fly out tonight

see you in utah

A Steam giveaway, and one about TIE95 modding.

It's probably because you and the people you interact with aren't teens anymore. So basically the latter of what you said.

Good times. From that experience I learned never to give out any kind of personal information online, and I learned what a dumb ****ing kid I was.

My inbox is a goldmine. In no particular order...

* EAH_TRISCUIT sending me Magicka. Thanks for the game!
* Lots and lots of JM and I thinking we're geniuses and everyone else on the forum just doesn't understand our brilliance
* Emon complimenting me in private but being too embarrassed to do so in public. It was probably completely warranted. Also expressing amusement at the warring between Steven and I.
* Tibby thanking me for the honor of being in my signature
* Two separate bannings for inflammatory 9/11 trutherism. I'm not sure how serious I was.
* A warning from MB for being annoying
* JM egging me on to continue in my trolling and generally crazy behavior
* Darth Evad and I sharing pics of Liv Tyler
* I got a warning from mb because I made a comment with just "." in it.
* Even more JM expressing amusement at my/our trolling
* Steven asking if I have any more pictures of my mom
* Anovis and Isuwen offering their support to me over the mom thing (note: I didn't really deserve it, they're just really nice people)
* I offered Greenboy some compliments on his hippieness.
* Asked mystic0 why he never uses capital letters. Got some nice ramblings from that
* Wookie and I talking about the political compass
* Emon and I talking about how no one can use apostrophes correctly
* Someone thanking me for telling Rob to shut up
* Lots of people directing general anger at me, including JLee, JediKirby, Lord Kuat
* mb imploring me to stop antagonizing dj yoshi
* various people thanking me for coming to their aid in an argument
* JediKirby asking for my help with CSS (?)
* Asking wookie about the military (I'm really glad I didn't end up joining, I was considering it at one point though)
* Roach helping me with a puzzle
* Daft_Vader asking me questions about Java
* Coordinating with people about the Madaventor memorial pack

That one is true, though.

Steven, totally forgot about those paintball guns! Do you still play? I still have the autococker I mentioned and also a PMR something-or-other I bought later but I haven't played in years. My son is 11 now and the local field will let kids play at age 12. He's expressed some interest which is the only reason I'm still holding on to them. I'm sure I'll have to go through and replace all the o-rings and just hope they work right but they were put away clean and lubed and are stored in a dry place so hopefully they'll be ok.

I haven't played since I moved seven years ago. I had a groups of friends I would go with about once a month, but when I moved I never got around to going again. None of the people I know here play, but there is a field nearby. I guess I just didn't want to go to a new field by myself. My stuff is in a bin in my garage somewhere. I cleaned and oiled it well before storage, so some minor maintenance and I'll be the old guy with an old Tipmann 98 getting shot all the time again.

Also, freelancer, sorry for being an ******* about your mom. Looking back, that was pretty ****ed up.

Nothing too interesting

A few one day bans from when CM ran the site
Tibby asking about Hypnotoad when I had the avatar
A photomosiac of Jesus made of porn from Kyle90
And apparently NoESC posted my mobile number at some point

Also some stuff from Rob, whatever happened to him?